Museums Computer Group conference 2015 Minneapolis talk by Tristan Roddis and Andy Cummins of Cogapp; Alan Newman and David Beaudet, National Gallery of Art; Melissa Gold Fournier, Yale Center for British Art. Useful links: www.iiif.io http://labs.cogapp.com/iiif http://labs.cogapp.com/transcriptinator/

1. The International Image
Interoperability Framework
6th November
MCN 2015 Minneapolis
Andy Cummins, Cogapp - @qmins
Tristan Roddis, Cogapp - @tristan_roddis
Alan Newman, National Gallery of Art - @AlanNew
David Beaudet, National Gallery of Art - d-beaudet@nga.gov
Melissa Gold Fournier, Yale Center for British Art

2. A Whirlwind Tour of IIIF
● What is IIIF? - International Image Interoperability Framework
● A standard for requesting images and metadata over the web
● Allows for flexibility in the returned assets and metadata
● There are two parts to this framework

3. Image API
● Historically you have a set of image derivatives
● With IIIF you have free rein to request any derivative you need
● Just amend URL parameters to specify what you need
● Dimensions, zoom, crop, rotation

4. Potential Uses

5. Presentation API
● Provides metadata about your images in a standardised way
● This is all delivered in a manifest file in JSON format
● Tombstone information for a collection item, copyright information as well as
relations to other items
● This common format allows users to make use of alternate viewers

6. Alternate Viewers
- Mirador
- Internet Archive Book Reader
- Scholars can use the tools they are
most comfortable with
- Code can be shared between
institutions as it’s based on a
common standard
- iiif.io for more info

7. IIIF: The International Image
Interoperability Framework

8. Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851,
Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed,
1818, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
In the digital realm,
the Center’s goal is to share its open
digital resources in formats that allow
for easy creative and scholarly reuse in
order to contribute to the study of
British Art worldwide.
About the Center

9. Yale University’s Open Access Policy
General Principle:
The preservation, transmission, and advancement of knowledge in the digital age are
promoted by the creative use and reuse of digitized content for research, teaching,
learning, and creative activities. The goal of digitization is to enhance access to the
collections in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries for students, faculty, and the
world.
To this end, Yale will make digital copies of unrestricted public domain collections
available for use without limitations through the University’s electronic interfaces.

10. Detail

11. Peter Gaspar Scheemakers, 1691–1781, Alexander Pope, ca.1740, Marble,
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Compare Images
Louis François Roubiliac, 1702–1762, Alexander Pope, 1741, Marble, Yale
Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of the British art historian
Basil Taylor (1922–1975)
Compare Images
John Constable, 1776–1837, Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames--
Morning after a Stormy Night, 1829, Oil on canvas, 48 x 64 ¾ in (121.9 x 164.5
cm), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John Constable, 1776–1837, Sketch for ‘Hadleigh Castle’
c. 1828 -1829, Oil paint on canvas, 1226 x 1673 mm,
Tate Gallery

12. Alfred Joseph Woolmer, 1805-1892, British, Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition,
Create online galleries

13. Annotate images
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, Sunset along the Nile, 1867, Watercolor, graphite,
pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper,

14. Goals of IIIF
To develop, cultivate and document shared
technologies that provide a world-class user
experience in viewing, comparing,
manipulating and annotating images.
To give scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich
access to image-based resources hosted around the world.
To define a set of common application programming interfaces
that support interoperability between image repositories.

15. Digital Strategy
Use technology to make collections
as widely accessible as possible
• Open Access policy
• Data exchange standards and protocols
• Open source tools
• Linked Open Data

16. User Access

17. Machine Readable Access – Data exchange standards
• Linked Open Data
semantic endpoint
• CIDOC-CRM
• OAI-PMH
• LIDO XML

18. Unknown artist, 16th century, An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII,
ca. 1590, Oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A good marriage

19. IIIF compliant image server & JPEG 2000
Yale Center for British Art

20. Zoom via IIPMooViewer

21. Art in Focus: Gazes Returned, The Technical Examination of Early English Panel Painting,
an exhibition on view at the Yale Center for British Art, April 13, 2012 - December 9, 2012.
Photo: Richard Caspole, Yale Center for British Art
“Reformation to Restoration” Project

22. Collect and compare a range of visual material
Yale Center for British Art

23. Unknown artist (formerly attributed to Steven van der Meulen), 16th century, Portrait of a
Young Woman, (detail) 1567, Oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An example

24. An example, continued

25. Annotation and sharing

26. Thank you
emmanuelle.delmas-glass@yale.edu
michael.appleby@yale.edu
edward.town@yale.edu
jessica.david@yale.edu
melissa.fournier@yale.edu

27. Qatar Digital Library
www.qdl.qa

28. http://labs.cogapp.com/iiif
http://labs.cogapp.com/transcriptinator

29. NGA Demo
https://youtu.be/1iADkg_nOiU

30. Any questions? You know you want to...
Andy Cummins, Cogapp - @qmins
Tristan Roddis, Cogapp - @tristan_roddis
Alan Newman, National Gallery of Art - @AlanNew
David Beaudet, National Gallery of Art - d-beaudet@nga.gov
Melissa Gold Fournier, Yale Center for British Art